ENOLA, PA (Oct. 29, 2020) – REALTORS® from the Greater Harrisburg Association of REALTORS® (GHAR) volunteered with Community CARES, New Hope Ministries, Cocoa Packs and Bread of Life Outreach throughout the month of October in celebration of REALTORS® Reach Out Month. Pennsylvania REALTORS® across the commonwealth are working in their communities to make a difference through REALTORS® Reach Out…
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ENOLA, PA (Sept. 28, 2020) – REALTORS® from the Greater Harrisburg Association of REALTORS® (GHAR) partnered with Love the Hill on Friday, September 25 for a Community Clean Up Day to beautify the community. Love the Hill is an inner-city initiative of Wildheart Ministries for one of Harrisburg’s most needy neighborhoods, Allison Hill. More than 20 REALTORS® pitched in to spruce up an overgrown lot in Allison Hill…
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Ridiculous as it may be, some buyers and sellers hook-up without a REALTOR®’s involvement. It may be then that you get a call for help. What would you charge to put a simple agreement of sale together covering all the terms the buyer and seller have already negotiated? Maybe it’s because you can pick-up a few dollars…
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ENOLA, PA (September 3, 2020) – Greater Harrisburg Association of REALTORS® Foundation hosted its Annual Golf Outing on Wednesday, September 2, 2020, at Armitage Golf Club in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Proceeds will benefit housing-related charities in the Greater Harrisburg area. The Foundation welcomes men, women, and mixed foursomes from all business and organization types. For the 144 golfers…
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A shared driveway may be an impasse or an obstacle to the sale of property. Why? To a lender the reason is the same as that behind its demand that the title be marketable. The mortgaged real estate is collateral for the loan and the lender wants to assure that the collateral may be easily sold at no less than the amount due on the mortgage…
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ENOLA, PA (August 21, 2020) – The Greater Harrisburg Association of REALTORS® Foundation collaborated with Kick in for Kids, Inc. for their annual school supplies drive. REALTORS® and affiliate members from over 40 member offices made it their mission this summer to collect donations of backpacks, pencils, pens, paper, crayons, markers, scissors, binders, notebooks, and other school and craft supplies for local students…
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ENOLA, PA (July 29, 2020) – The Greater Harrisburg Association of REALTORS® (GHAR) recently appointed Brooke Clark as its new Director of Membership and Special Events. Clark has been appointed as the primary staff person to plan and organize association events and the point person related to both REALTOR® and affiliate membership. As Director of Membership and Special Events…
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Most of you have had some experience with the mediation program established by the Pennsylvania Association of REALTORS® and invoked in the agreement of sale, most likely from working with a client who initiates mediation or upon whom a request for mediation has been served. REALTORS® too are named respondents in a mediation, usually by an aggrieved buyer. Here are some helpful tips for you and your clients to consider when attending a mediation conference…
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My contacts with the real estate community more often are with those who practice in the residential market…where the dam seems to have broken. The pent-up frustration has led to a flood of activity in some of our counties and cities. Consumers caught in the pinch are relieved as are licensees are now out and about…
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Social Media Remember being inundated with solicitations for courses on the essentials of social networking, the rules of media etiquette and the like? Everyone was all over that stuff. Today, when the Commonwealth’s response to the pandemic evokes such vitriol and division it is hard to imagine that the message from those lessons stuck. As a lawyer working from home…
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